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On its front page, the Boston Globe pre-covers the next mass shooting. (Original Post) kpete Feb 2018 OP
Sutherland Springs church shooting seems to have fallen off the radar completely oberliner Feb 2018 #1
Old news... world wide wally Feb 2018 #3
Or too soon ... Chili Pepper Feb 2018 #7
I read a chyron last night that Paul Ryan said, "Now is not the time...." phylny Feb 2018 #28
They don't even need to shoot new footage of sociopath ryan not fooled Feb 2018 #32
Yep. They fall off the radar quickly now. That's why I favor showing the aftermath kcr Feb 2018 #6
Just like broadcasting the horrors of the Vietnam war helped to galvanize Lucky Luciano Feb 2018 #10
Yes, and that's when change happens. kcr Feb 2018 #12
to put the war in our faces onethatcares Feb 2018 #22
Parkland is quickly falling off the radar. Vinca Feb 2018 #24
Hopefully this time will be different oberliner Feb 2018 #25
Trump's plan to discourage immigration IronLionZion Feb 2018 #2
Isn't his plan to make our youth kill themselves in hopelessness? To have millions weeping? ancianita Feb 2018 #11
We won't have school shootings if we don't have schools IronLionZion Feb 2018 #16
K&R smirkymonkey Feb 2018 #4
At this point, we would settle for a half a$$ effort to stop the carnage. Grammy23 Feb 2018 #9
thats pretty powerful and unfortunate true keepleft101 Feb 2018 #5
I am no longer interested in finding out why they (the shooters) do what they do. pazzyanne Feb 2018 #8
Sports, hotdogs, apple pie Glaisne Feb 2018 #13
They Forgot Something: berni_mccoy Feb 2018 #14
Missed WestIndianArchie Feb 2018 #15
AGREED! Just like Paris! And Syed Rizwan Farook in San Bernadino. And Omar Mateen in Orlando. MadDAsHell Feb 2018 #17
Arabs are considered white. Retrotech Feb 2018 #18
You are correct! And clearly motivated by white supremacy. MadDAsHell Feb 2018 #20
All I said was Arabs are white. Retrotech Feb 2018 #21
Bigoted WestIndianArchie Feb 2018 #30
Just in case WestIndianArchie Feb 2018 #31
Suspect WestIndianArchie Feb 2018 #27
This message was self-deleted by its author MadDAsHell Feb 2018 #19
Yup WestIndianArchie Feb 2018 #29
:( Cha Feb 2018 #23
Parkland was a 2 day story lapfog_1 Feb 2018 #26
 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
1. Sutherland Springs church shooting seems to have fallen off the radar completely
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 09:38 AM
Feb 2018

Not to mention Las Vegas.

Chili Pepper

(102 posts)
7. Or too soon ...
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 11:22 AM
Feb 2018

Or is it still "too soon to discuss" any solutions?



I get so tired of hearing that every time!

phylny

(8,389 posts)
28. I read a chyron last night that Paul Ryan said, "Now is not the time...."
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 09:43 AM
Feb 2018

You know the rest. If it wasn't so sad, I'd laugh at the caricature.

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
32. They don't even need to shoot new footage of sociopath ryan
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 03:34 AM
Feb 2018

just replay his useless utterances from after the last mass shooting. Even the wording is the same.

Oh, and: republican policies = death


kcr

(15,320 posts)
6. Yep. They fall off the radar quickly now. That's why I favor showing the aftermath
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 11:19 AM
Feb 2018

I was on the fence about it until someone pointed out how we'd already forgotten about Las Vegas and the church shooting. I think this country needs to be shocked awake. The only way anything gets done is if we fight hard and keep the pressure on, and that won't happen in the state we're in now.

Lucky Luciano

(11,260 posts)
10. Just like broadcasting the horrors of the Vietnam war helped to galvanize
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 11:30 AM
Feb 2018

...opposition to that war.

This war unfortunately also needs to be displayed in our faces to generate the opposition we need.

Emmit Till’s mother showed the horror done to her boy - it made any non-psychopath cringe and wretch, but it made a difference.

kcr

(15,320 posts)
12. Yes, and that's when change happens.
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 11:40 AM
Feb 2018

Sometimes it takes seeing the evidence to get people stirred up. Get people angry enough to keep the pressure on Congress and they will act.

onethatcares

(16,188 posts)
22. to put the war in our faces
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 09:37 PM
Feb 2018

would disrespect the troops.

We already know how that one works. All you have to do is see all the upgrades payed for by the tax cuts to the VA.

Even now, the VA is waiting for the final VietNam vet to pass.

Vinca

(50,309 posts)
24. Parkland is quickly falling off the radar.
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 08:57 AM
Feb 2018

Wash, rinse, repeat. Wash, rinse, repeat. I had hopes the student activism might make a difference, then I saw the grinning photo op of Dear Leader at the bedside of an injured teen with her family all present for good measure. They should have kicked his orange ass out of there just because he signed the legislation that allows mentally ill people to buy guns.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
25. Hopefully this time will be different
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 09:09 AM
Feb 2018

Although hearing the Republicans in Congress talk on the morning shows - the hope dwindles quickly.

IronLionZion

(45,534 posts)
2. Trump's plan to discourage immigration
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 09:54 AM
Feb 2018

is to make America a murderous violent shithole that no one wants to come to anymore.

Blame Muslims, immigrants, Latinos, mental illness, FBI, Military, police, parents, anything except sensible gun laws.

White males are simultaneously antifa/leftists and non-political and protected from the terrorist label. Because thank God no one was terrorized.

ancianita

(36,137 posts)
11. Isn't his plan to make our youth kill themselves in hopelessness? To have millions weeping?
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 11:31 AM
Feb 2018

End any public institutions like public schooling?

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
4. K&R
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 11:11 AM
Feb 2018

Over and over and over again. This will just keep happening until we the people put a stop to it by voting these NRA supported cowards out of office. Drastic measures need to be taken if anything is going to change in this country.

Grammy23

(5,815 posts)
9. At this point, we would settle for a half a$$ effort to stop the carnage.
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 11:29 AM
Feb 2018

At least it would be something! But these jackasses just stand there with a strange, wistful look on their faces, hands clasped, and somberly offer condolences and exhort us to pray. Well, you fools, lots of people HAVE been praying that you would do something besides offering platitudes and empty promises!

We are worn out with this foolishness. If you think we will just forget about it and move on to the next chapter in this Fresh Hell, you are mistaken. Our cup is just about filled to the brim with the anger and tears of frustration caused by the killings but also your lack of action. We look to you, our leaders in DC to do something to stop this insanity. Instead we find out that many of you are bought by the gun lobby to maintain the status quo. You sold your very soul for blood money. How does that feel to have the blood of children and other innocents on your hands? I hope the money was good because somewhere along the line, you will pay for your greed and lack of concern for your constituents.

In the meantime, we need to be hounding the living life out of these fools. Marching in the streets is not out of line. Maybe if they have to hear from us en mass every.single.day they will know we mean business. Their days in office are numbered. If someone will step forward with sincere plans to help us stop the carnage, we will boot the old guard out and put new people in who will do the work for the people. Count on it.

pazzyanne

(6,557 posts)
8. I am no longer interested in finding out why they (the shooters) do what they do.
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 11:23 AM
Feb 2018

It doesn't matter. What matters is the hundreds of young children and teens being slaughtered in an environment that should be safe for them. They are there to learn, not to be killed and terrified. School shootings are terror attacks on the nation's youth. I might add that the majority of these attacks are carried out by home grown terrorists who have unlimited access to guns and ammunition. Has anyone else noticed that the guns being used are not simple handguns, although those handguns can do a lot of damage. They are weapons that are used on battlefields across the world. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH AMERICANS THAT THEY LET THESE ATROCITIES GO ON DAY AFTER DAY, WEEK AFTER WEEK, MONTH AFTER MONTH, AND YEAR AFTER YEAR, BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE MINDSETS THAT SUPPORT WHAT IS HAPPENING BY DOING NOTHING - NOTHING TO STOP THE CARNAGE. Someone please explain to me how this is allowed to continue with only "thoughts and prayers" as the offered platitudes. Those "thoughts and prayers" are meaningless in the context of what parents, siblings, neighbors, and the nation are subjected to every fricken day. WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH!

 

berni_mccoy

(23,018 posts)
14. They Forgot Something:
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 11:57 AM
Feb 2018

And the NRA will continue to fund Congressmen and Politicians who will do and say nothing about it, allowing the gun industry to continue making billions of dollars in blood money.

 

MadDAsHell

(2,067 posts)
17. AGREED! Just like Paris! And Syed Rizwan Farook in San Bernadino. And Omar Mateen in Orlando.
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 12:29 PM
Feb 2018

And Syed’s wife Tashfeen Malik. And Sharef Allman in Cupertino.

Yep, this is solely a racist white male problem.

 

MadDAsHell

(2,067 posts)
20. You are correct! And clearly motivated by white supremacy.
Fri Feb 16, 2018, 08:44 PM
Feb 2018

I wasn’t aware Omar Mateen or Tashfeen Malik spouted white supremacy ideology. I must have missed those findings from that investigation? Watching the wrong channels maybe?

If only Seung-Hui Cho hadn’t been such a violent white supremacist, 32 people would still be alive at Va tech.

If only 34-year-old African American Aaron Alexis hadn’t been a closet KKK member, 13 people would still be alive at the Navy Yard.

The post I responded to was so ridiculously uninformed and bigoted that I shouldn’t have even responded, yet here I am wasting my time.

WestIndianArchie

(386 posts)
31. Just in case
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 01:32 PM
Feb 2018

hey, MadDasHell just in case you think your gonna shrink from your position take a look. I'm not the only one that believes this.

https://www.alternet.org/lone-wolf-network-biggest-terror-threat-americans-isis

"ridiculously uninformed and bigoted" ay

WestIndianArchie

(386 posts)
27. Suspect
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 09:41 AM
Feb 2018

Sounds like you outted another racist/white supremacist suspect. These clowns will always do 3 things lie, deny and obfuscate. smdh

Response to MadDAsHell (Reply #17)

lapfog_1

(29,226 posts)
26. Parkland was a 2 day story
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 09:24 AM
Feb 2018

the media has moved on.

17 dead and we are back to trump indictments and playmate affairs

there will be no serious legislation on gun control or even on mental health

the only potential outcome left is how many people in the FBI lose their jobs over the flubbed jan 5th tip line f'up.

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